JEEP's Common Tells

This information is probably out of date, and needs to be edited by someone who knows what has happened since early 2005.

Here are a few simple tells that may help you find various roles in Mafia.

By making these "tells" public knowledge, they should fade away (but will probably never completely disappear). Players may attempt to plant some of these (to bluff those who read this).

Some general rules of thumb¹ that I use:

• Most players instinctively want to tell you their role on some level. Exception: Doctors always want to hide the fact that they are doctors (and may allude to being something else).
• Pro-town roles rarely lie. This makes it much easier to determine pro-town roles. (It is generally accepted that pro-town liars reduce the town's chances of winning. Lynch All Liars!)
• Players often ask about something they caused. When players ask "what's up with XXX" it means they probably did it. Especially if they try to tell the town that it "must be" a pro-town ability.
  • Example: The first person to speculate on whether or not a Serial Killer is in the game may be the serial killer, or the first person to wonder about a possible Vigilante kill may be the vigilante, etc.

Title	Expected release date	Status as of July 16, 2004
Finding the Doc	Published	Complete
Finding the Cop	Published	Complete
Finding Mafia	Part 1: Complete	Part 2: 60% complete
Finding Masons	January 2005	25% complete
Finding the Serial Killer	November 2004	50% complete
Finding Townies	February 2005	90% complete
Miscellaneous Tells	On-going	In progress
Game Analysis	After all others are current	5 of 10 complete; others started
JeepBot	I might have time to write this	A gleam in my eye

Note

1. These are rules of thumb, not hard and fast rules. There are always exceptions and WIFOM.